Jaybird 2.1.2 is Released
Jaybird 2.1.2 is released. It is a bugfix release that targets two main issues, JDK 6.0 compatibility and support for INSERT…RETURNING statements. More info at the JDBC Driver page.
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More about Coverity tests.
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Today I decide to put up a post about a common requirement which leads to an interesting SQL query (see an example here) using Firebird and Flamerobin, after a few seconds I was writing bug reports
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Article in Spanish
http://www.llodra.es/archives/50
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Here is the question on Firebird-Support group
> How did port 3050 get selected as the “gds_db” service port. Was it
> chosen arbitrarily or is there some interesting story behind it? Maybe
> Jim Starkey’s phone number in Groton? 🙂
No story there at all. It was just a number that nobody else seemed
to be using at the time. And don’t ask me to remember a 25 year old
phone number … I barely remember my current number!
Cheers,
Ann
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Only for Brazilians and portuguese speakers people:
Convidamos todos aqueles que tem interesse de participar da quinta edição do Firebird Developers Day a responder uma breve pesquisa on-line, para que possamos adequar cada vez mais o evento aos interesses dos participantes.
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ODBC Escape sequences has included in ODBC standard and allows write SQL queries which compatible with many DBMS. Firebird and Interbase does not contains own implementation for escape sequences and therefore we have implemented them in IBProvider and now users can write compatible SQL queries for Firebird and Interbase as for MS SQL Server, Oracle, My SQL, PostgreSQL, DB2 and etc.
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Beta version of the Firebird 2.1 database was published at the end of June. I suppose, most interesting features are the global database triggers, the temporary tables, possibility of the database monitoring through the SQL, canceling running queries and the new SQL statements. We are implemented new Firebird 2.1 features in IBProvider
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In a story headlined, “Open Source Code Contains Security Holes,” I referred recently to the Firebird database project as “somewhat moribund.” So imagine my surprise when a reader pointed out it was named project of the month in December by SourceForge, the dominant host of open source projects. Geez. Then there was the case of the supposedly “inactive” FreeBSD Unix.
Read the full response here
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Here is the full thread on nhibernat and the quote
“However, the thing that finally made us switch from SQLite to Firebird was the fact that it only support one open transaction at a time. This makes it essentially useless for multithreaded/multiuser applications. SQLite is excellent for some tasks, but if you have more than one thread/process accessing the database at the same time you really should consider using another database. ”
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